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My name is Aaron Peacock, I am married, with 3 kids and two dogs, and am currently pursuing my Master's degree in Unmanned Aerial Systems. This will honestly just be a basic blog set up for my Human Factors in UAS class, set up to host research and articles found through the class.

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Drone America Savant in Beyond Line of Sight Operations             Mid-February of 2017, a record setting flight was completed above the Nevada desert. A small, fixed-winged unmanned aerial aircraft flew a distance of over 39 miles at an altitude of 1,500 AGL to deliver a small medical care package to a predetermined location. What made this flight so unique is that the delivery mission completed by this small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) operated under Beyond Line of Sight conditions for over an hour before delivering its payload upon landing at Hawthorne Industrial Airport. To accomplish this task, the team from the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems utilized a team of ground observers to maintain safety, as well a Cessna 206 containing aerial observers (Barker, 2017). In addition to additional safety observers, the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems team also required a Certificate of Authorization from the Federal...
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UAS Integration into NextGen             The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s latest ongoing airspace management system, known as NextGen, is an initiative collaboration created in an attempt to update and fully modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). Relying on help from the entire aviation industry, NextGen promises to improve safety and efficiency throughout the airspace (Houston, 2017). Beginning in the early 2000’s with the Vision 100 act, the FAA’s plan to bring the NAS into the modern era aims to improve fuel economy, reduce airport and airspace congestion, provide standardize weather information to pilots and Air Traffic Controllers alike, and provide a better overall experience for passenger travelling on commercial airlines (Houston, 2017). NextGen intends on reaching these goals through Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) systems that act as a more reliable and accurate replacement to curren...
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